Republic F-105F Wild Weasel

Wild Weasel is a nickname for aircraft of the United States Air Force tasked with the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) mission. The name derives from Project Wild Weasel originally developed by Captain Bill McGuigan, naval aviator, of the U.S. Marine Corps—the first development program for a dedicated SAM-detection and suppression aircraft. Originally named "Project Ferret", denoting a predatory animal that goes into its prey's den to kill it (hence: "to ferret out"), the name was changed to differentiate it from the code-name "Ferret" that had been used during World War II for radar counter-measures bombers.

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• F-105
• Thunderchief
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• Weasel
• USAF
• combat
• aircraft
• Vietnam
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• SEAD
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• Enemy
• Air
• Defenses
• Republic
• Aviation

[terraformer5]

My Grandpa was Flew the F-105. and He was a Wild Weasel

[PTPLauthor]

YGBSM.

It's pretty neat that the Thud was able to find a sort of niche in Wild Weasel missions--it's supposed to be about the size of a B-17--the original mission for the Thud was as a tactical nuclear bomber.

[nachjagger33]

The SA - 2 "Guideline" was a best friend of these "Air Pirates" in North Vietnam....

Many, many passagers of the "Hanoi Hilton" were in this "hotel" courtesy of the SA-2...

[centurion180ad]

Oh the melodrama, is nauseating!

[Irano1995]

This one is in my backyard

[Mitch70832]

Proud to have loaded these Wild Weasels F-105 F/Gs at Korat, RTAFB, June 5 1966 to June 5 1967, jammer driver. A1C Larry G. Mitchell, 1966.

[336kgf]

@ironroad18 I remember reading about the last Thud mission with the CA ANG and Eagles had problems keeping up with it at high speed.

[pecepetube]

Simple nice....

[cyberarmy007]

Good movie about the fabulous 'Thud', 3:38 commie downed!

[B3aStfr0mth3]

I have 1 of these